Thursday, Sept. 13
Girls soccer: Lindbergh at Mount Rainier, 4 p.m.; Highline at Kennedy, Evergreen at Renton, 6 p.m.
Volleyball: Mount Rainier at Evergreen, Tyee at Kennedy, Highline at Renton, 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 14
Football: Highline at Evergreen, Tyee at Mount Rainier, Foster at Woodland, 7 p.m.
Girls soccer: Foster at Charles Wright, 3:30 p.m.; Hazen at Tyee, 4 p.m.
At 16th and Holden, a man was stopped for a traffic violation. But it seems he was driving with a suspended license. His female passenger displayed her valid license to the officer and offered to drive the man and his car home. But her friendly gesture hit a snag when a records check showed that she was wanted on a $10,000 warrant after failing to appear in court on a prostitution charge.
As a movie concept, the idea of a rat becoming a famous cook doesn't hold much promise. It's a counterintuitive storyline considering the rodents inhabit the opposite end of the hygiene scale from anything we would want associated with food preparation.
Gee Automotive, held a "Block Party" on Saturday featuring the band 'Unite', Pookie the clown, Seahawk Marcus Tubbs, free food and prizes.Gee put together a successful car business in Spokane before purchasing all of the dealerships previously owned by West Seattle's Huling Bros.
When Elsbeth and I visited the newly owned George Gee auto dealership last week I got a chance to talk with the new owners of the former Huling Bros. company.
I met George Sr., his son Ryan and their wives and found them all warm, neighborly and anxious to talk to me about their long-term experience in serving the driving needs of thousands of friends in Spokane, where the name (it once was McGee, generations ago in Ireland) is a household word.
I love their philosophy - no visitor ever leaves our showroom without a smile on their face.
Concerns that skateboarders will vandalize and trash our community are unwarranted and immature.
We've seen how a skate park can compliment a neighborhood, such as the one in Ballard, and even build a sense of community among those of all ages and interests. Isn't it discrimination to outcast a group merely because they enjoy a certain activity?
It's disappointing to see comments like the following that was posted on the Herald's Web site under last week's story on the effort to get skate parks built here under the citywide skate park plan.
A citizen wrote...
By mid-October the coho salmon should be swimming upstream again in Fauntleroy Creek.
The salmon have avoided taking the journey from the Sound up the creek, located south of the Fauntleroy ferry dock, because the creek's headwaters, just a few blocks up the other side of Fauntleroy Way Souhwest, flow directly and rapidly into the Sound, creating an inhospitable habitat.
Sen. Erik Poulsen, who's represented West Seattle, White Center, Burien and Vashon Island in the Washington Legislature for 13 years, is quitting to become a lobbyist for public utility districts.
Public utility districts provide electricity and water to Washington's rural communities. Poulsen, who lives in West Seattle, will leave the state Senate at the end of September to become government relations director for the Washington Public Utilities Districts Association.
Rep. Joe McDermott appears to be the favorite to replace Poulsen in the Senate.
Dozens of people wore surgical masks to a Port of Seattle meeting to protest diesel tractor trailers being parked in residential sections of Georgetown, South Park and White Center.
The protest was staged by the Washington Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now at a Sept. 6 public meeting sponsored by the Port at South Seattle Community College's Duwamish campus in Georgetown. The meeting was intended for the public to comment on a proposal crafted among the ports of Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, B.C.
Six acres of ridge-top property in the West Duwamish greenbelt - once slated for surplus sale by the city for private condo development - are on their way to preservation as public open space.
The Seattle City Council's committee on parks, education, libraries and labor is scheduled to take up the matter Sept. 19.
Neighbors in the Riverview neighborhood objected four years ago to the city's proposed sale of the top of a 30-acre slice of the greenbelt, Seattle's largest forest. They wanted the ridge to be part of the greenbelt, not the residential area.
